After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood. But focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road. Through Daje's intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illumin... (Full plot summary below)
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After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood. But focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road. Through Daje's intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive.
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| VarietyJay WeissbergFor Ahkeem doesn't present anything new, but perhaps there's no need to: Its focus on one young woman struggling to graduate implicitly says that no matter how common the story, every person matters. |
| Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianThe weight of the systemic racism they experience is crushing enough to make it hard to imagine that Daje and Antoine will be able to offer their son any more opportunities than they have themselves. |
| Spliced PersonalitySean BurnsThere's some footage that feels suspiciously finessed for storytelling purposes, but whenever Daje's onscreen it's impossible not to be moved. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenThere is a fascinating impulsiveness to the production of this story, especially as it essentially drops viewers into the world of Daje, and then has us follow her for months. |
| New York TimesBen KenigsbergWhile the film ends at a logical stopping point, it feels incomplete. It probably could have used a few more years of filming. |
| Globe and MailBarry HertzIt’s a sort of bad-luck situation most documentarians secretly dream of, but to their credit, For Ahkeem’s co-directors don’t exploit the situation, merely letting their cameras continue to capture Daje’s ever-dire situation. |
| Detroit NewsAdam GrahamLevine and Van Soest are on top of their subjects with a startling familiarity and shoot in such a clean, unfiltered style that at times you question if they're working from a script or if their subjects are actors. |
| indieWireDavid EhrlichBy simply documenting Deja's humanity, For Ahkeem offers a vivid example of the incontrovertible fact that black lives matter. |
| Pittsburgh City PaperAl HoffThroughout the movie, there is one constant: Daje's smile. You can't help but want to keep rooting for her. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian CostelloExcellent docu on teen's struggles in inner-city St. Louis. |
